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February 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 97 Post-Punk

The early eighties in Wellington was the best place and the soundtrack for me was what I suppose you would call post punk. It was a new type of music and I loved it – Echo and XTC, Furs and the Cure, Magazine and Joy Division, Dexy’s and Only Ones, Stranglers and Members, Japan and […]

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July 20, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 17 The Gladstone

After the Spines had recorded our album, the Moon, we went about playing the songs live. That line up with Ross Burge, Wendy Calder, Neill Duncan and me became very forceful and rhythmic and could play to big crowds. We got some great support slots – Hunters and Collectors, the Go-Betweens, The Violent Femmes and […]

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November 25, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1742

The Johnnys, Highlights Of A Dangerous Life (1986) My good friend Matthew Couper gave me a dubbed cassette of The Johnnys when we were at high school. Man, I thrashed that album. It was this weird hybrid of tongue-in-cheek country and tongue-in-pint pub-rock and I loved it. Instantly. All it once it was like nothing I’d […]

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November 18, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1754

Hoodoo Gurus, Stoneage Romeos (1984) I joined this band when I was in school, right. I was 16. They were all 26 or so. And the band had one rehearsal and then the rehearsal space was sold. No biggie. A year later I get a call and one of the guys from that band has […]